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Awards and Achievements

On November 6, 2014, at the Annual Employee Recognition Ceremony honoring the extraordinary contributions and service of our colleagues, the Pace 2014 Service Award was presented to Jindi Zhang, Head of Cataloging, and to Richard Bernsley, Reference Librarian, for their 20 years of excellent services, to Richard Castillo, Day & Weekend Circulation Coordinator, for his 10 years of excellent service, and to Alyson Carney, Public Services Assistant /ILL, for her 5 years of excellent service. Congratulations to all!

On October 15, 2014, Vicky Gannon, Reference Librarian and Head of Circulation, hosted a workshop for Yale Law School and Environmental Studies students on research strategies for accessing local land use and planning laws based on work she has done to assist students working at the Land Use Law Center at Pace. The workshop attracted over twenty five students and received very positive reviews from many of the students who attended as well as from Vicky’s counterpart from the Yale library.

Lucie Olejnikova, Reference / Electronic Services Law Librarian, has been elected Vice-Chair, Chair-Elect of the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). FCIL-SIS's primary objective is to serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas and information on foreign, comparative and international law, and it represents members' interests and concerns within AALL. Congratulations, Lucie!

Congratulations to Alice Pidgeon, Head of Technical Services, who was awarded the Spring 2014 GreenPace Award in a ceremony held on April 30, 2014. This award recognizes faculty, staff, and students who develop innovative programs and services that assist Pace in meeting its commitment to sustainable practices. Congratulations, Alice!

Lucie Olejnikova, Reference / Electronic Services Law Librarian, was awarded one of the AALL Registration Awards to attend the 2014 AALL Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, this summer. Congratulations, Lucie!

Taryn Rucinski, Environmental Law Librarian, was awarded one of the AALL Chapter Registration Awards and a grant from LLAGNY (Law Library Association of Greater New York) to attend the 2014 AALL Conference in San Antonio, Texas, this summer. Congratulations, Taryn!

Cynthia Pittson, Head of Reference Services, presented a session on free and low cost legal research to 50 volunteer attorneys at the New York City Bar Association on April 1, 2014.

Congratulations to Vicky Gannon, Lucie Olejnikova, Cynthia Pittson, Taryn Rucinski, and Gail Whittemore, who have been awarded the 2013 Outstanding Contribution Team Award during the Employee Recognition Ceremony in the Tudor Room on March 6, 2014. The team was nominated by the Law Library for their excellent teaching services in the First Year Legal Skills Program.

Also on March 6, 2014, the Pace 2013 Service Award was presented to Sawsan Nosseir, a librarian, for her 30 years of excellent service, to Marie Newman, Director and Professor of Law, for her 20 years of excellent service, to Celeste McGuire, Technical Services Assistant, for her 15 years of excellent services, and to Taryn Rucinski, Reference / Environmental Law Librarian, and Lucie Olejnikova, Reference / Electronic Services Law Librarian, for their 5 years of excellent service. Congratulations to all!

On December 6, 2013 the Land Use Law Center at Pace University School of Law held its 12th annual conference titled “Leading Communities Toward a Resilient Future.” During the conference, Prof. John Nolon presented the Annual Distinguished Service Award to Vicky Gannon, Head of Circulation and Reference Librarian, for her continuous contributions to the work and mission of the Land Use Law Center. Congratulations Vicky on this well-deserved honor!

The Pace Law School Class of 2013 honored Pace Law Library with the Outstanding Departmental Award during commencement on May 14, 2013. Marie Stefanini Newman (pictured), Professor of Law and Library Director, accepted the award on behalf of the Library staff. We thank the Class of 2013 for this honor.

On March 7, 2013 the Pace 2012Employee Recognition Ceremony was held at Pace Law School where Alice Pidgeon, Head of Technical Services, was recognized for her 30 years of excellent service. The Pace 2012 Service Award was also presented to Vicky Gannon, Head of Circulation and Reference Librarian, for her 25 years of excellent service and to Shumei Han, Technical Services Assistant, and Gail Whittemore, Special Collections and Reference Librarian, for their 10 years of excellent service at Pace. Congratulations!

Pace Law Library is hosting Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War traveling exhibit from March 5 to April 11, 2012 on the third floor of the Gerber Glass Building. This exhibit is free of charge and open to public. Special thanks and congratulation goes to Jack McNeill, Associate Director, for submitting a winning grant proposal to the National Endowment for Humanities-Small Grants to Libraries, which brought this exhibit to us. Thanks to the entire Library Staff for helping to construct the exhibit. Reference librarian Taryn Rucinski prepared a research guide to accompany the exhibit.

Congratulations to Cynthia Pittson, Head of Reference Services, who has been awarded the 2011 Outstanding Contribution Award during the Employee Recognition Ceremony in the Tudor Room on February 28, 2012. Cynthia was nominated by the Law Library for her excellent references services, teaching, and leadership. Also on February 28, 2012, Helen Choi, Cataloger, was presented with the Pace 2011 Service Award for 10 years of excellent service. Congratulations to Cynthia and Helen!

Congratulations to reference librarian Taryn Rucinski, who presented her guide on Environmental Crimes research to the ASTAR Judges’ Science School on Technologies for the Detection of Environmental Crimes. This conference, held at the New York State Judicial Institute Oct. 26-28, was attended by 55 judges from New York. The goal of the conference was to improve judges’ understanding of the salient principles and technologies presented in prosecutions of environmental crimes.

Congratulations to reference/electronic services librarian Lucie Olejnikova, who was elected secretary-treasurer of the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries. Lucie had previously worked on the FCIL Schaffer Grant Selection and Fundraising Committees.

Congratulations to Associate Law Library Director Jack McNeill, whose PEN-e blog was named as one of the top 50 environmental law blogs by LexisNexis. PEN-e shares news, commentary, legal research sources, new books and articles, and legislation on Environmental Law, Energy, Land Use Law and related legal topics.

On May 8, 2011, the Pace Law School held its Thirty-Third Graduation Commencement. The Pace Law Library was honored with the Outstanding Departmental Award. This is the second time the Law Library has been presented with this award. Marie Newman, Professor of Law and Library Director, accepted the award on behalf of the library staff. We thank the class of 2011 for this honor.

On March 18, 2011, the Pace 2010 Service Award was presented to Sunny Hlewicki, Office Manager, for 25 years of excellent service. Maria Cuccurullo, Technical Services Assistant, Jack McNeill, Associate Library Director, Cynthia Pittson, Head of Reference Services & Adjunct Professor of Law, Michael Weston, Late Night Circulation Coordinator, and Wen-Xin Yao, Technical Services Assistant were presented the Pace 2010 Service Award for 10 years of excellent service. Richard Castillo, Day & Weekend Circulation Coordinator, received the Pace 2010 Service Award for his 5 years of excellent service.

On January 5, 2011, Sharon Harcharan, Evening Circulation Coordinator, gave birth to Brooke Priya Sharma. The baby weighed 7 lb., 7 oz. and was 19” long. The baby was born in an ambulance on the shoulder of the Sprain Brook Parkway, which was temporarily closed for the birth. The baby’s first name commemorates the unusual circumstances of her birth, which were the subject of a story that day on the Channel 12 News. Her mother couldn’t make it to the hospital in time to give birth there, and her sister, Pamela Harcharan, also working in the library as Collection Maintenance Coordinator, called 911 when Sharon went into active labor en route. Mother, baby, and aunt are doing well. Click here to view the news report.

The Pace Law Library efforts to incorporate Web 2.0 technologies to create a more robust online presence have been highlighted in a recent LLAGNY newsletter article. See David Dames & Imtiaz Jafar, Using the Academic Law Library Webpages as a Marketing Tool, LLAGNY: LAW LINES (Law Libr. Ass'n of Greater N.Y.), Fall 2010, at 33. Read the article here.

Reference/Electronic Services Librarian Lucie Olejnikova received the 2010 Spirit of the FCIL-SIS Award at the 2010 American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting in Denver, CO in July 2010.

Reference/Electronic Services Librarian Lucie Olejnikova coordinated and moderated a presentation with a follow up discussion at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) in Washington D.C. in July 2009. This program was a part of the Foreign Comparative and International Law (FCIL) Special Interest Section Executive Committee presentation titled The Past, Present, and Future of Law Library and Librarianship in Afghanistan: The Challenges and Rewards of Building a Library After 30 Years of War.

Reference/Electronic Services Librarian Lucie Olejnikova moderated a Legal Research Round Table discussion titled How To Include New Technologies Into Teaching Legal Research at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) in Washington D.C. in July 2009 which is a program offered by the Academic Law Libraries (ALL) Special Interest Section.

Jack McNeill, Associate Library Director, has been elected Vice-Chair, Chair-Elect of the Academic Law Library Special Interest Section (ALL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). ALL-SIS provides a voice for the interests of and issues of common concern to those employed in academic law libraries both within the section and AALL, and to the larger world.

Reference librarian and Head of Circulation Vicky Gannon was appointed to a five year term, ending 2015, on the Town of Somers Planning Board.

Law Library Associate Director Jack McNeill's photograph of the Library (right) will be pictured in an article on “Ensuring Justice in Tough Economic Times” in a forthcoming edition of the American Judicature Society.

Associate Law Library Director Jack McNeill's article on the renovation of the Library was published in the May 2008 issue of AALL Spectrum, which is devoted to library architecture. The article, entitled Architects? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Architects, chronicled the role of the Library staff in redesigning the Library.

After years of planning and two years of renovation, the Law Library celebrated with a rededication ceremony and reception on Oct. 30, 2007. The theme of the well-attended program was "Looking Back, Moving Forward." The reference area was dedicated to the memory of Nicholas Triffin, Law Library Director (1984-1998), for his vision and years of guidance, and the Nicholas Triffin Environmental Law Research Fund was established with a generous donation from Professor Nicholas Robinson. The Pace Environmental Law Society also donated a group of environmental-themed DVDs for the Library's Law in Film collection.

Professor Marie Stefanini Newman, Law Library Director, was awarded an Outstanding Contribution Award during the Employee Recognition Ceremony in the Tudor Room on Sept. 21, 2006. Marie was nominated by a Library staff member and cited for her outstanding leadership qualities. Congratulations to Marie!

An interview with Marie Stefanini Newman, Law Library Director and Professor of Law, was published in the Spring 2006 issue of Faculty News from Thomson-West. Marie shares her observations and insights on the learning processes of today's law students, and on course management software such as TWEN.

Vicky Gannon, Head of Circulation, was awarded an Outstanding Contribution Award during the Employee Recognition Ceremony in the Tudor Room on December 12, 2005. Vicky was nominated by a faculty member, and cited for her outstanding reference service. Congratulations to Vicky!

The Law Library hosted a reception celebrating the opening of the David Sive Archives on April 20, 2004.

The faculty of the Law School voted unanimously to grant tenure to Law Library Director and Professor of Law Marie Stefanini Newman on March 10, 2004.

Law Library Director and Professor of Law Marie Newman and Associate Director Jack McNeill presented their program, Networking to the Future: The CISG as a Paradigm of Scholarly Web Publishing, at the 2003 AALL conference in Seattle, Washington.

Law Library Director and Professor of Law Marie Newman accepted the Outstanding Departmental Award on behalf of the Law Library at commencement 2003. We thank the Class of 2003 for this honor.

Sunny Hlewicki, Staff Assistant, Law Library, received the Pace University President's Extra Mile Award during Employee Recognition Week in December 2002. Sunny received the award for providing extraordinary service in helping others on behalf of Pace University. Congratulations to Sunny!

The International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) presented its 2002 Best Non-Commercial Web Site Award to the CISG web site. The CISG database encompasses international commercial law as well as the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

Associate Law Library Director Jack McNeill moderated the program, Global Citizen: Immigration Law Research Challenges, at the 2001 AALL conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Pace Online Health Law Library was highly recommended by LLRX.com as a reference for anyone studying health law issues on any level, from local to federal. Margaret R. Moreland, a lawyer and reference librarian at Pace Law School specializing in health law issues, designed and maintains the Online Health Law Library.

Law Library Director and Professor of Law Marie Stefanini Newman received the 2000 Law Library Journal Article of the Year Award from the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). The award was presented to Professor Newman at the annual AALL conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her article, Evaluation Criteria and Quality Control for Legal Knowledge Systems, was published at 91 Law Library Journal 9 (1999), and discusses the attributes of high-quality websites.